This training course will provide insight on strategic trading and effective pricing of energy derivative structures while illustrating best practice of these to mitigate risk. The two day seminar is clearly structured to cover the instruments and market characteristics in-depth, addressing the specifics of modeling energy products and risk management application of these instruments. Risks are defined in the context of energy markets including main approaches to estimating and calculating value-at-risk. The practical case studies will ensure you discuss areas of concern that might arise from your day-to-day work and enable you to put into practice the theory discussed.

About The Trainer:

Tom James

Energy and Commodities Markets Expert and Author

Tom James is an expert in energy and commodities markets. His broad experience, gained through 20 years in the energy and commodity sector, covers investment and trading across Asian, Central Asian, Middle East, West Africa, European and North American markets.

His career has spanned the complete value and business process chain from upstream to downstream in energy and other commodity markets. Through this he has built up a holistic understanding of the key elements of investment and risk management decision making.

He is a recognized business architect with a proven track record of building and developing businesses in this sector. In addition to this, through his work for investment banks and trading firms as an experienced market analyst and trader, he has had the opportunity to prove his abilities in leading, motivating and developing teams of traders and investment professionals.

In 2003 he published his first book offering practical guidance to corporate managers and new traders in the energy and commodity sector and since then he has published three more books and contributed to two others.